i'm sorry is a big issue. here moscow time just as the us recognize the syria's opposition the head of the coalition says washington shouldn't label any group fighting the assad regime as terrorists. syrian rebels are criticizing washington for designating one of their most ruthless and efficient groups in the fight against a terrorist organization war coming up. also the headlines this hour north korea's rocket blasts off a message of defiance go young says it sets a weather satellite in space but it's enough to one nerve the region. and president putin vows to cage the corruption says it's time for russians to seize the initiative in the country's development.

over good evening chief you just joined us here at the new center tonight and first syria's main opposition group says the u.s. should reconsider its decision to add an al qaeda linked group to its list of terrorist organizations saying it's helping them in their fight to topple president bashar al assad this is the united states becomes the latest country to openly declare its support for the opposition coalition has kept speed on this kind of future cans it's. like why is america willing to support the opposition movement while claiming one of their factions has indeed links to al qaeda they say. well kevin it's very much clear that washington is trying to distance itself from extremists in syria they have designated the front a terrorist organization it's thought to be one of the most aggressive and ruthless

groups currently involved in the conflict washington's decision to call them terrorists is seen as more of a symbolic move because many other fighters in syria welcome the efforts of those designated terrorists in fact the leader of the very syrian opposition coalition which the us is just formally recognized that is supportive off came out and asked the u.s. to reconsider their decision on almost right because they've been so helpful in the fight against assad. maus he said quote there is nothing wrong with fighting in the name of islam then i think that this coalition another coalition spokesman yasser have borrowed said that we will work with everybody on the ground who has an agenda which includes ending the suffering of the syrian people if it is on the same page they will be dealt with using dialogue and containment end of quote the fact that radical groups are on the ground on the same page with the rebels in syria is no secret to anyone by now

and if their acts include suicide bombings and all kinds of for all kinds of things that they seem to be ok with that in this war for them taking a closer look at the rebels in syria. they call themselves martyrs. you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to do. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having each. behead a man who was presumably an ocelot supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tao we come

meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you didn't was people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin feels any form of whip around to to to really. like. control any place. religious believes and ideology representatives of opposition fighters came together in turkey last friday to form a unified command with the support of the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends one of the delegates at the meeting says two thirds of the islamist dominated anti assad groups have ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in karo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you

will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits. we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage then although you will die like these do rabbits in its own words the government is fighting terrorists that battle has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the

syrian government was ordered to have been widely criticized but there's that crisis mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on since you've been on the air news comes through more reports of an explosion outside the syrian interior ministry in damascus the blasts believed to have hit the main entrance of the building no reports of casualties as yet soon as we get more we will of course bring you up to date there with the latest from damascus. north korea successfully launched a rocket today to find warnings from its neighbors and the u.s. it's the second attempt this year after a failure back in april young says it sent a weather satellite into orbit but washington sold in turkey and play interesting game when the shock technology the e.u. strain fresh anxious now saying the north has violated international law as it's banned from conducting ballistic missile test by the u.n. washington called the launch highly provocative well japan wants

a tough response from the u.n. security council north korea expert professor really good friend told us pressure on. your young goes never yielded results before so it probably will now. sanctions are of course an appropriate means to show your political dissatisfaction but in terms of being effective if they are almost useless in terms of north korea sanctions up in the plight for decades korea had enough time to find ways around those sanctions there are humanitarian concerns as to why is the trying to so i think sanctions have more or less a symbolical function but they will have little actual effects on those for the better it's a rocket or missile is definitely a question of interpretation from a political perspective because technically both devices live you say is this a difference is what the pay a little bit you put a cell on top it's a rock if you put a nuclear warhead on top it's a missile basically it's the same thing to go to the u.n. to see a resolution and there are good reasons for the patient i'm the legal expert but i

don't at all so it definitely doesn't believe this resolution is unlawful to prohibit. all of the launches for peaceful purposes frankly speaking i do not believe that north korea attends an all out attack on its neighbors this program including nuclear program house purely defensive and in terms of purposes it's no sides interest to have war because if you have war in korea both korea's election is off for a lot as long as the regime is stable and all three of us actually do p. per ship there is no immediate our danger of a war breaking out that are going to get frank that come out president putin promises that no corrupt official politician will go on punished in the south by news than we hear about the crackdown the russian leader has vowed during his first impressions from tending to the kremlin. and the u.k. reveals who's going to stump up to revive its flagging economy but the rich can rest in peace tonight the government's going to be tough for me to pull off this

time. it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance a bear in railway but a spiritual center. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worshippers and blessid will to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighty s.

the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from them. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the balls location head of the for the russians the russian. a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists will stand here and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office where the tsar nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they lead a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves was

leading the ordinary normal countryside life style they even had thoughts of a scape but within the year the czar and his family would be dead. in a media crackdown on corruption in russia with tough pressure on all official suspected of wrongdoing as president putin focus strongly on how to solve problems at home and his first address since returning to the top job. has more about the russian leader on line. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third

time it ran no major sensations nor political changes but at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time put in barely spoke about any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there have been plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most correct way to do that is to invest in two youths richard is the as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia aged between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world twenty years time economically active population could shrink by fifty percent or less we do something this trend will continue either we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business

build families raise children be happy just a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory but probably the biggest problem dragging russia back for the past two decades has been corruption among the higher echelons of power that is because the largest probably the largest chunk of speech was dedicated to this burning issue clearest and probably the toughest message coming out from the russian president this time on the fight against corruption was that north fishel regardless of how high she or he or she is can feel safe from punishment if he or she is found in embezzlement or anything corrupt of actions in there go. her mental body's so tough was put in on the issue that sometimes it seemed that he was not speaking to the whole country or for the whole world to listen but he was addressing the people directly in this particular hole those who gathered to listen to what he had to say

russia's lawmakers people from the cultural sears and military coup or david in order that we could you know how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia at the same time trying to take his money out of the country i ask you to support the bill to limit the amount of foreign accounts and stocks that officials and politicians can have. the people. don't applaud yet maybe you would like everything i have to say in just one week's time i didn't put in will be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the entire planet will again be on the russian president let's see russia r.t. reporting from inside the kremlin that is reputed said the world faces more big changes in the coming years and wants russia to be ready relations with the us or as in focus the fun of first chairman from russia's lower house of parliament says

mutual accusations and acting alone in the world are not the way forward. we have heard a lot of accusations towards russia from the west lately from hillary clinton from the european parliament and from some western politicians and it has basically led to nowhere we can exchange as many accusations as we want with the worst on the syrian crisis but it does not lead to the solution of this crisis and putin was absolutely right to point out that there is no possibility in the modern world to solve those sharp international issues on the you know let's roll basis and the united states the american political class have to understand this my feeling is that the largest part of the american political class is still living in the twentieth century they have not come into the twenty first century yet they sink america is an impotent they sink america can do whatever it wants it's not the case and the syrian crisis shows that the development of china is

a big challenge for the united states so i think that put his message was very brief but terrorism both look at the more new world. have a reasonable assessment of your own capacities and resources and come to the conclusion that if you act alone you will fail. palestinians are giving a whole new meaning to launching a perfect this is seventy five the fragrance with fire. used against israel's a recent air offensive report about online tonight. if you will it plus the budget numbers find out why today's date comes with some rather amusing superstitions ulti don't call ms twelve must know facts about the twelfth the twelfth of the twelfth.

the british government's promising its economy can be steadily revived but its pension is young mothers are paying the price as polly boyd who explains next the cost of recovery will mean penny pinching from the poorest. the brits have got it coming a raft of nips and tucks to tax some welfare that's going to see those with the least squeeze the most so while the treasury chief admits millionaires are about to get an average tax cut of their one hundred thousand pounds a year from next april it's the less fortunate who bear the brunt of dealing with the u.k.'s ten billion pound welfare bill but the cuts will come in disguise take for example the new so-called bedroom tax tenants in council housing will get less than benefits if their state funded accommodation is deemed too big for them some

local authorities already say that could push up to four thousand people into homelessness especially as they're already being squeezed with an increased cost of living that's making christmas tough in many households the government insists it needs to fix public finances and that means cuts among various with too little to spare the chancellor has really made the main target of his austerity the poorest families he's cutting the support received both for the working poor three tax credits and so on and also for the for those on able to work it's not just bedrooms being taxed but motherhood as well last week the chancellor announced that maternity pay would be capped meaning that pregnant women will be almost two hundred pounds worse off starting next year opposition labor m.p.'s have labelled it the mummy tax and an unprecedented raid on families and that softer those at the

other end of the age scale were left reeling this year from the granny tax leaving pension as a further three hundred pounds out of pocket and a winter of worry ahead david cameron might have promised to be the best family friendly government ever but with friends like that who needs enemies. egypt's suppositions calling for a no vote in the constitutional referendum on we should gyptian ex-pats have already begun voting meantime president morsi says the internal vote will be done in two stages starting saturday concluding a week later that decision comes because of a shortage of judges supervise it ninety percent of the country's judges say they will boycott the referendum seen as a representative from choose a thousand since the streets of cairo protesting against the draft well it's a mistake to rival rally to show their support it all comes amid a military presence to after the president ordered the army to maintain security in the country that said to me as

a kiwi see with us my own leaders editor of news wires on the line live from detroit hi there the opposition failed to force morsi to cancel a vote they're now calling for a no to the draft do you think this move will be more effective than just boycotting the referendum altogether. it was a very difficult decision on the part of the national salvation front which is a broad spectrum of various secular political parties from both the liberal tendencies as well as the more last organizations and parties inside the country it's a situation where if they did maintain the call for the boycott. of the plea i would go in favor of the freedom and justice party government of president morsi. today the expatriates who are around the world who are gyptian citizens nearly six hundred thousand of them are going to start voting over the next three days on this controversial draft constitution the opposition forces are not

uniform group and therefore they have to decide what their position is going to be if they in fact lose the vote that is scheduled on december the fifteenth now there's a question about the role of the judiciary with that within this whole process one of the leaders of the judicial also. so she is out of egypt is saying that many people i will not participate but president morsi is administration is saying that there will be adequate to distil supervision of these opposition groups in the national salvation front also saying that they have conditions that they're laying down an order for them to in fact participate on the fifteenth one of course being that they have the adequate security and have a country and also that there be adequate both domestic as well as international monitoring so be very interesting to see what transpires over the next three days is there any hope of anyone getting run the table before that not been reports that

the opposition would be prepared to attend talks and to tighten the political crisis but you know as your side there's no signs of easing tensions is does love at all possible do you think well the defense ministry attempt it today to convene talks between the opposition forces and the supporters the islamists who are behind the government to president morsi from our information that has not been able to be convened today egypt of course is at a critical crossroads. tommy is still and dire straits the international monetary fund is under negotiations right now with the morsi government over the terms of a four point eight billion dollar loan those negotiations have been suspended pending december fifteenth vote presumably morsi administration would prefer postponing the negotiations thinking that if the referendum goes off smoothly on

the fifteenth that they will be in a stronger positions to negotiate better terms for this international monetary fund loan but the situation is critical you have high unemployment some twenty percent of the workforce officially is out of work also the national debt is mounting tourism which is the main. state of the egyptian economy is extremely under stress due to the uprisings that have taken place over the last two years is there a danger that the losers foreign backing the i.m.f. and foreign investors and money that goes into it is he's reliant on it isn't it most definitely and if the opposition forces are not satisfied with the terms are surrounding the upcoming vote in three days and if the no vote prevails in the referendum then of course i think the i.m.f. . put even more stringent terms surrounding these upcoming undergo sheesh and it's

because egypt definitely needs the capital it is not in a position right now to take a strong position against the i.m.f. or international other international financial institutions understood function of thought something and as a kiwi editor of the pan-african newswire appreciated. back to the develop a new story of mentioned a couple minutes ago with the explosion in syria the syrian interior ministry in damascus today this is the first footage that comes through from the scene the blast is believed to hit the main entrance of the building not quite sure the music is in the background syrian state t.v. says there have been casualties but did not yet give any figures about that as soon as we get more we'll of course bring you the details. a gunman opened fire in on christmas shoppers in oregon in the united states two people were killed one injured in portland before the suspect apparently turned the weapon on himself the man was reportedly were caliph large suit and hockey mask carrying an assault rifle a police investigations underway. used by the venezuelan president hugo chavez he's

undergone his fourth cancer surgery now in cuba it has been described as successful chavez urged his supporters to back vice president nicolas maduro should his condition force him to give up his presidential duties its latest treatment comes two months after he was reelected in a tight vote. you seem things are this before here is again more brawling inside ukraine's parliament this time punches being traded by m.p.'s in the new assembly lawmakers from the party of the country's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko would pull overs bearing her image on the slogan freedom for political prisoners before lashing out at others they attacked two members of their own party accusing them of defecting to the current president video coverage is probably secured a slim majority in the disputed election. twenty five minutes past eight o'clock moscow time thanks for being with us coming up soon the relationship between washington and wall street in a funding delay for paramedics martyn's breaking the set from the states in just a few minutes.

looking at some dorks you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia now let's try and come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who

set the trail of place but a nun and for all friends who brought their dia to life. five years ago. bill to duck kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed to the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly updates their websites and they're in touch with busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my own interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether part of schemas huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but truly just the

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going on i'm out in martin and this is breaking this set today i want to talk about him cuts not just any handcuffs it's a very controversial set of handcuffs to be the perfect addition for the growing police state this is an illustration of the next generation of handcuffs created by scottsdale inventions in arizona the cust could be fitted with an accelerator own homemade are sorry just. a tracking device of microphone a camera and a biometric sensor to measure your state of health not only that but the design also comes with a housing unit for electrodes that could deliver an electric shock to the detainee but the future is now also the handcuffs of tomorrow wouldn't be complete without the ability to administer drugs directly into a suspect bloodstream that's right folks think a lot of the taser tranquil things are g.p.s. surveillance handcuffs of the future and if you're my.